AAA-Writers and photographers

Below are the names of writers who are currently active.  For others, living and deceased, please type their name into the search box above the masthead on our home page, www.sdjewishworld.com

Lucy Friedlander Covington preserved Native American life

Lucy Friedlander Covington was extraordinary. Her grandfather Herman Friedlander was Jewish and her grandmother an Entiat tribal woman. According to Lucy, neither of the couple learned the other’s language, so their seven children spoke both Jewish/German and Entiat. –– Charles Trimble, Oglala Lakota By Jerry Klinger Attending a Shiva House a few weeks back, a […]

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA

Details emerge on upcoming San Diego Jewry exhibition

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Some details are beginning to emerge about the major exhibition planned by the San Diego History Center about the Jews of San Diego. Bill Lawrence, executive director of the center that previously was known as the San Diego Historical Society, said the exhibit will run between nine months

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA

At first German- speaking Jews fared better

I Only Wanted to Live; the Struggle of a Boy to Survive the Holocaust by Arie Tamir;  published by Arie Tamir, 2015; translated from the Hebrew by Batya Jerenberg By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Some kind of morbid fascination, possibly even masochism, seems to impel me to download and read yet another Holocaust memoir,

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History

Hadassah honors local ‘Women of Excellence’

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — A video about the advanced research and clinical trials taking place at the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem concluded Hadassah San Diego’s Women of Excellence Luncheon on December 4. The program featured talks by two remarkable local women: Executive Chef of Extraordinary Desserts, Karen Krasne, and retiring San Diego City

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Eileen Wingard, San Diego County

PHAME comes to San Diego school at last

I’m gonna live forever I’m gonna learn how to fly I’m gonna make it to heaven Baby, remember my name! — From “Fame” by Irena Cara By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –In 1980, Christopher Gore inspired performing arts teachers throughout the nation with his movie FAME, a drama about New York City high school

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. Masori

Humoring the headlines: November 29, 2016

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Donald Trump conferred the epithet Crooked Hillary on his presidential rival because he accused her of pay to play arrangements between donors to the Clinton Foundation and the access they were granted to her as Secretary of State.  As more revelations about the Trump Organization’s international properties are revealed and the

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Israel’s secular schools under religious pressure

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The headline in the paper one morning made me shudder. It reported that Israel’s Minister of Education, Naftali Bennet, had proclaimed that it was more important to focus on Jewish studies in schools than on math and science subjects. Admittedly, the party that Bennet represents, Jewish Home, stands for

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Talented Mormon violinist thrills Jewish audience

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Violinist Jenny Oaks Baker, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was the featured soloist at TICO’s opening programs, Thursday evening, November 17 and Saturday evening, November 19. The large audience in the Cohen Social Hall of Tifereth Israel Synagogue included many members of the Church of Latter Day Saints, of

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

Mother- daughter bonding in cross country road trip?

By Eva M. Trieger LA JOLLA, California — What more perfect bonding experience could there be than a week-long mother-daughter cross country road trip?  That phrase evokes images of laughter, singing, and discovery, but it neglects the truth of a nitty gritty relationship that is punctuated by anger, pain and many revelations for both mother

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast